On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hans wrote:
>> > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
>> > textmode ("ncurses-mode").
>> > [...] I wondered, ho
>> > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application
>> > natively running in linux.
>>
>>
>> > Is DOS C and Linux C compatible, so that such thing could be easy?
>>
>> C is not a typical programming language on DOS. Similar to ncurses it
>> stems from Unix. But of course there are C compilers and *curses versions
>> for DOS.
>>
>
> Didn't Borland open-source or freeware license Turbo C++ ? The cheaper
> Borland C++ ? If I remember that right and you can find it, it might be the
> compiler that was used.
>
Another possibility is that they used the old Glockenspiel C++. That was
absorbed by Computer Assoc who I worked for from 1989 to 1993. It may be
freely available. They are called CA for several years now.
>
>> Have a nice day :)
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
